Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-22

taught to reverence the Supreme Be
ing, hate the evil of sin in the sight of
God, to reverence the character and the
teachings of the Savior, to worship
God, to obey his laws, and to seek sal
walton by his son?
Man being religious being, religious
principles should be early cultivated.
AS the moral and religious instructions
of children are too often neglected by
the parents, the important duty of Civ
ing this kind of instructions devolves
upon the teacher by the right of his
office and as u n official duty, notwith-
standing he may or may not be stand
ing i'm loco PARENTS lin .the place of
the parent).
In Capt. FPS reply he wholly aban-
doned the ground he occupied in his
article. of August 25th, and took up as
my main argument an incidental quo
tation made in regard to the teacher
standing in the place of the parent.
1t is presumable that after reconnoiter-
ing the breastworks around the "Boba-
dillian," citadel, Capt. F., Fabius like,
charged upon an outward picket post,
drove them in, and before the main
force had time to reply, fell back to
Silent Town; but being pursued to this
point by General Conscience, he stam-
mered out the most absurd thing, in
the way of an excuse, 1 suppose he
ever wrote: "Let me not be misun-
derstood. Whilst I would bar every
schoolroom door against the bible in
the abstract, 1 demand in every school
room the bible in the concrete"
By this he goes On to explain that the
teacher should, before entering the
schoolroom, become thoroughly &C
quainted with the bible doctrine, and
endued, as it were, from on high with
the Holy Ghost, and being thus sur
charged with what he calls concrete
bible," he is permitted to go into the
schoolroom and teach seotarianism in
its worst form. If the teacher with his
concrete bible' happens to be of the
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instructively teach the creed, modes
and manners of his church; hence, the
virtues of Calvin and the doctrine of the
perseverance of the saints will be made
prominent upon the pages of his con-
crete bible, while nothing will be said
to the Methodist child about John
Wesley, his doctrine of Christian per-
fiction and peculiar mode baptism.
The Baptist and the child of the free
thinker would alike suffer for the want
of digestable spiritual food. From
these facts the natural conclusion to be
drawn is, that the door of the school
room should ever be barred against the
bible in the "concrete." But to the
bible in the abstract-that is to the
simple reading of the bible as an open
ing exercise or as means of impress
ing upon the undeveloped minds of the
!, children. the salient precepts of the
bible, especially such as are to be fOund
in the Psalms of David, the Proverbs
of Solomon, the Sermon on the Mount,
apd the Ten Commandments-wh can
object? Of course the fool has said in
his Leart, "There is no God" Our
modern Tom Paaine's say, that the BIZ
BILE is a mere myth and tissue of lies!
Yet, in spite of the philosophical writ
, ings of such men as Darwin, Huxley,
Hum boldt. and the bombastic rantings
, of Ingersol against the inspiration OF
the bible, and the divinity of Christ,
there are millions who have not yet
r bowed the knee to Baal, and before the
, end of time every knee shall bow and
every tongue shall confess.
The Gen. carries his concrete idea sc
far as to damand that each pupil before
r entering the schoolroom should be fill.
q ed with concrete bible. If this absurd
idea should obtain, the present schoo
age of children would have to be
changed from six years to fifteen years
old; the nine intervening years being
put in what may be termed the con
crete institute! Surely this is an age
of progress, of Christian (?) liberty, lib
erty of conscience, and even "Dry
Light of Reason"
t Paul says that we must take heec
/ lest our liberty become stumbling
+ block to those that are weak.
/ read with interest the 14th chapter
of Romans, and will, in conclusion, in
e vite the reverend General to read care
: fully, before attempting to write again
. upon any religious subject, the frs
and second chapters of Peter's Secopt
Epistle. G. A. MAsToN.